sender check: a Sender: line is held to the rule From: is held to
test / test (push) Waiting to run

The owner's decision (2026-10-16) on the security review's F1: a Sender:
line - the sending agent's, shown beside From: as "on behalf of", and
signed since 2.8.0 - was neither held to the login nor, before, signed: an
application could write its own From: and Sender: ceo@bank.com under this
server's signature. Now, when a message has one, it must be one address
the application may send as, and at most one such line (RFC 5322 § 3.6);
From: is judged first.

The refusal is "550 5.7.1 Sender: <address> - <why>", a send-log row of
reason "sender" (store.ReasonSender), tagged "wrong Sender"; the message
page names the line. The log tailer recovers such a row from cleanup's line
as it does a From: refusal (fromRefusalRe reads either). Help text as in
the design commit d9d9af3; guide, architecture, security and CHANGELOG say
it, security.md keeps Resent-From: (signed, not judged) as an accepted
risk.

Tests: TestSenderLineHeldToTheSameRule (own address, a name, another
application's, a stranger's, two addresses, two lines, From: first), the
recovery of a Sender: refusal line, the tag, the message page; e2e
sender_check_holds_the_sender_line (own Sender: passes and is signed,
another domain's refused at DATA and logged).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -98,6 +98,18 @@ func TestFromRefusalIsRecoveredAfterTheWait(t *testing.T) {
if e != want {
t.Fatalf("recovered %+v, want %+v", e, want)
}
// A refusal for the Sender: line (2.8.0) is recovered as one: composed
// after the From: line above, with the check's reply as sender.go writes
// it.
st = &refusalProbe{}
r = &refusalLines{st: st}
r.handle(`Oct 14 12:00:00 mail postfix/smtpd[11]: F1A2B3C4D5E6: client=unknown[10.77.0.1], sasl_method=PLAIN, sasl_username=app1`, now, Place{})
r.handle(`Oct 14 12:00:01 mail postfix/cleanup[13]: F1A2B3C4D5E6: milter-reject: END-OF-MESSAGE from unknown[10.77.0.1]: 5.7.1 Sender: ceo@bank.example - not an address this application sends as; from=<alerts@sender.e2e.test> to=<rcpt@sink.e2e.test> proto=ESMTP helo=<x>`, now, Place{})
r.retry(now.Add(refusalLineWait + time.Second))
if len(st.recovered) != 1 || st.recovered[0].Reason != store.ReasonSender || st.recovered[0].HeaderFrom != "ceo@bank.example" || st.recovered[0].From != "alerts@sender.e2e.test" {
t.Fatalf("recovered %+v, want one Sender: refusal", st.recovered)
}
}
// While a line or a recovery waits, the offset saved for its file stays at the